Affiliation:
1. DEPARTMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND EPIDEMIOLOGY, SUMY STATE UNIVERSITY, SUMY, UKRAINE
2. DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, SUMY STATE UNIVERSITY, SUMY, UKRAINE
Abstract
The aim: To establish changes in hematological parameters of endogenous intoxication, nonspecific reactivity, activity of inflammation in HIV-infected persons, to improve verification of the clinical stage of the disease.
Materials and methods: Anamnestic, clinical, laboratory data. The statistical processing was performed in the Microsoft Office Excel 2010 and IBM SPSS Statistic 23 computer software, variational statistics processing (Student’s t-criteria).
Results: 51 HIV-infected were examined (main group) and 44 clinically anamnestic healthy blood donors (comparison group). The study included 46 patients (5 were withdrawn due to failure to meet criteria – severe septic condition). All patients were divided into three groups: A1 – all patients, 46 persons, men 76.0%, women – 24.0%; A2 – 11 people with I-III stages of HIV infection, men 72,7%, women – 27,3%; A3 – 35 HIV infected with stage IV disease, men 76.0%, women – 24.0%. All patients had an increase in intoxication indices and sex-dependent changes. Nonspecific reactivity indices in group A1 were above the norm, independent of gender except the index of neutrophils and lymphocyte (NLR). Below the norm is the immunoreactivity index (IR), the lymphocyte-monocyte ratio index (LMR), the lymphocyte index (Ilymph), the index of allergization (IA). Indices of nonspecific reactivity of A2 patients exceeded the norm and were independent of sex, with the exception of IR, Ilymph, IA, which were reduced. Non-specific reactivity indices are increased in HIV-infected group A3. Below the norm were IR, LMR, Ilymph, IA. Analyzing the activity indexes of inflammation, it became clear that the Krebs index (KI) was increased in all groups of patients; lymphocyte-granulocyte index (ILG) in groups A1 and A3 is less than normal, unlike patients in group A2, where it remained within the normal range. The leukocyte ratio and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ILESR) in A1 and A3 have increased rates, unlike in A2, where the index is smaller.
Conclusions: Men are predominantly HIV positive. The systemic immune response is more pronounced in women. There is a progressive impairment of immunological reactivity, indicating an immunodeficiency of the cell type with a decrease in nonspecific anti-infective protection. Patients with stage IV of HIV infection have moderate and severe inflammatory reactions, impaired reactivity, and are more pronounced in women.